I built a live ops dashboard with no chart library and no framework
Stat tiles, a line chart against capacity, meters and a status grid, updating every second from one Server-Sent Events stream. All plain custom elements.
Thoughts and ideas about architecture and programming
Stat tiles, a line chart against capacity, meters and a status grid, updating every second from one Server-Sent Events stream. All plain custom elements.
Hand-written table paging has a race condition almost everybody ships. Let the table ask for pages, pass the abort signal on, and the race is gone.
Frameworks were built to fill gaps in the browser. Most of those gaps are closed. What is left for a business page is a table, some tabs and a chart, and…
Instructions in a prompt are requests. How I moved my rules out of the prompt and into tests, analyzers and decisions.
Templates are strings, so tsc cannot see a typo in them. Angular and vue-tsc can. npx @relax.js/core check closes most of that gap by resolving every template…
Agent-written code passes review and still erodes a system. Four mechanisms in Kiwipow Agent that answer it with evidence rather than with trust.
mount, flush, fakeServer and mountRouting. The four helpers that let an agent verify a page the way the app uses it, from vitest, without a server or a browser.
An MCP server that finds duplicated code by meaning, ranks it by what it costs to keep, and hands the worst of it to my AI agent.
A template that cannot resolve a path renders an empty string. For a human that is a blank spot on the page. For an agent it is a green test. Here is how the…
Plain custom elements, a synchronous lifecycle, nothing re-renders on its own, and typed events. Four rules, each chosen because a reviewer can check it by…